{"id":26279,"date":"2011-02-24T07:14:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T11:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/scripture-is-to-fill-us-head-t\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T07:14:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T11:14:19","slug":"scripture-is-to-fill-us-head-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/scripture-is-to-fill-us-head-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Scripture is to fill us head to toe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Bishop%20Pates%27%20Ordination.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bishop Pates' Ordination.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/02\/Bishop Pates' Ordination-thumb-250x164-8681.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"164\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>At a priest&#8217;s ordination as bishop the Book of the<br \/>\nGospels is held open over the man&#8217;s head by two deacons, a way to communicate that the<br \/>\nScriptures are crucial to the life of the bishop and that Christ has infused<br \/>\nHis Word in his heart and mind. Archbishop Timothy Broglio said this when he<br \/>\nordained Bishop Spencer in 2010:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">&#8220;Those<br \/>\nwritings inspired by Almighty God and identified and transmitted over the<br \/>\ncenturies by His Church must fill you from head to toe.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>You must be imbued with that word so<br \/>\nthat whatever comes from your mouth will be an expression of what you have read<br \/>\nand heard.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>You will have a special<br \/>\nopportunity to deepen the faith of those to whom you are sent.&#8221; We are to be<br \/>\nsimilarly filled.<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a priest&#8217;s ordination as bishop the Book of the Gospels is held open over the man&#8217;s head by two deacons, a way to communicate that the Scriptures are crucial to the life of the bishop and that Christ has infused His Word in his heart and mind. Archbishop Timothy Broglio said this when he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/scripture-is-to-fill-us-head-t\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scripture is to fill us head to toe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1810,1894,1719,1921],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}